Monthly Archives: March 2014

President Obama is in deep trouble with respect to his geopolitical strategy. He faces launching a symbolic attack on Syria that won’t accomplish any real political goal in terms of stopping the chaotic bloodbath there. Launching the cruise missiles will only intensify a sense of danger in the Middle Eastern oil producing nations and drive the price of oil to a level that will negatively impact....More>>>

Like chocolate and peanut butter, computer hard disk drives and solid state drives are two great tastes that taste great together — or so hope Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC ) and SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK ) .

On Tuesday, two of the biggest names in HDDs and SSDs, respectively, announced that they are teaming up to develop a new kind of “hybrid storage device”....More>>>

One of the troubles with market punditry is that people can pick different metrics to make whatever case they’re trying to make. Some cite variations of the P/E ratio to say the S&P 500 is overvalued. Others use different versions to say it’s undervalued.

Truth is probably found by looking somewhere in the middle. Last week, Charles Schwab chief investment strategist Liz Ann....More>>>

The economy grew at a 2.8% annual rate in the third quarter, an unexpectedly strong performance that defied predictions that slowing growth in new home sales over the summer and the threat of a government shutdown were cutting into growth.

The performance beat the average estimate of 2% annualized growth, as predicted in a survey of economists conducted by Bloomberg News. It represents an....More>>>

Ford (NYSE: F ) on Tuesday trumpeted the sales success of its popular Focus compact, citing just-released totals from analytics firm R. L. Polk that showed the Focus was the best-selling car in the world in 2012.

Consumer confidence is up 10% for the second month in a row, according to the Conference Board’s May Consumer Confidence report released today.

After a 12.2% drop in March, the newest numbers solidify April’s 10% gains. At an index rating of 76.2, analysts’ expectations were exceeded by 4.7 points, but confidence still remains well below the index’s 1985 100-point....More>>>

When making an investment decision, prudent investors seek to understand exactly how a company makes its money and what risks, current and future, could derail the company’s earning potential. To do that, investors of public companies need information.

The Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday filed charges against a group of brokers in a scheme wherein wealthy investors used variable annuities with death benefits to wager on the lives of the terminally ill.

As the summer travel season heats up, vacationers who are traveling by plane naturally want to know if their flights will arrive on time this summer. The last thing most travelers want to do is spend lots of extra time in the airport, rather than on the beach!

Unfortunately, the summer tends to be the worst season for air travel delays. Since demand is higher from June to August than for....More>>>

Times have changed, and women are stepping in to close the gender gap in corporate America. More and more researchers are looking at the impact women have in the business world. And what they’re finding is that companies that embrace gender diversity — on their boards and in their management ranks — are reaping measurable financial rewards.

Times have changed, and women are stepping in to close the gender gap in corporate America. More and more researchers are looking at the impact women have in the business world. And what they’re finding is that companies that embrace gender diversity — on their boards and in their management ranks — are reaping measurable financial rewards.

The Flash Memory Summit 2013 has just concluded. As the name implies, the flash memory summit is where the movers and shakers in the flash business meet, greet, and eat once a year and tell each other all the secrets about the past year’s activity on moving flash (NAND) technology along that wonderful line called Moore’s Law (I call it Moore’s Observation). As with most of these....More>>>

Foolish investors have been longtime fans of first-movers in a new space, and Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE ) has certainly been in on the ground floor in the effort to build out a national network of natural gas fueling stations. Now, the challenge for it will be to outpace some of its newer, larger competitors.

Tesla (TSLA) reported a wider than expected loss Wednesday after the bell, the biggest in the companys history. Teslas net loss for the quarter amounted to roughly $718 million, a considerable $4.22 cents a share.

Penske Automotive Group (NYSE: PAG) is one of 20 publicly-traded companies in the “Automotive dealers & gasoline service stations” industry, but how does it compare to its peers? We will compare Penske Automotive Group to similar companies based on the strength of its earnings, v

Red Rock Resorts Inc (NASDAQ:RRR) was the target of some unusual options trading activity on Thursday. Investors acquired 1,886 put options on the stock. This is an increase of approximately 1,036% compared to the average volume of 166 put options.